Time for soup! Tonight I made some Chicken & Barley Soup- perfect meal for a case of the Mondays. It was pretty good. You couldn't taste the barley as much another recipe I've made but it was still pretty yum. Recipe is below if your interested. The only change I made is I used shredded rotisserie chicken instead of cooking it myself :) If anyone has a copy of "my" 5 ingredient Barley Soup recipe I'd love to have it I can't find it anymore!! Thanks!
Chicken Barley Soup Recipe
(about 6-8 servings, recipe created by Kalyn)
8 cups chicken stock, homemade or canned
1 quart water
1
generous T Better Than Bouillon vegetable soup base (optional, but
recommended for best flavor, other types of veggie stock cubes can be
used)
1 tsp. dried thyme (or use frozen thyme leaves if you have them)
1 tsp. poultry seasoning (Penzey's recommended)
1 T dried parsley
1 onion, chopped small
1 cup chopped celery
2 cups diced cooked chicken
1 cup sliced or diced carrots (or more if you really like carrots)
1/2 cup pearl barley
fresh ground black pepper to taste, salt if desired
In
large stock pot, combine chicken stock, water, vegetable soup base,
dried thyme, poultry seasoning, and dried parsley. Simmer 15 minutes
while you chop veggies and chicken.
After 15 minutes, add chopped
onion, chopped celery, diced cooked chicken, sliced carrots, and
barley. Simmer 45 minutes to one hour over very low heat, until barley
is done but still a bit chewy. (I like the barley slightly underdone
compared to a lot of people, but cook until it seems done to your
taste.) You may want to add a cup or so of water if the soup reduces too
much.
Season with fresh ground black pepper and salt to taste,
and serve hot. (Be sure to taste before adding salt if using canned
chicken stock, which can be rather salty.)
This printable recipe from KalynsKitchen.com.
Here are some random pics from the last week....
At the park w/ my client:
Stanley giving me the evil eye (this was right after he was forcefully removed from inside the chair he burrowed into).
Here he is snuggled under the covers in the morning (he makes it so hard to get out of bed! He crawls under the covers and snuggles w/ me every morning).
Trucks...
Christian & I watched my client Saturday while mom & dad had a date night (Christian and I needed the rest after Vegas!).
Here is Dr. #$% fixing up Christian:
The end.
Have a great week!
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